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by lsy 4y ago
Is this article bringing any new perspective to the table? I suspect there is a quarterly Crimson tradition of superficial administration-bloat-decrying by Harvard sophomores with nearly-parodic bylines like (in this case) "Brooks B. A
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by lsy 4y ago
This is a very urgent-sounding article about China's supposed AI superpowers and how they will dominate the battlefield, coincidentally written by the head of an American "AI" company who would likely personally benefit from
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by lsy 4y ago
Unless I'm missing something in the article, this is entirely speculative, based on a trivial multiplication of the percentile rankings of a new performance review system designed well before the current economic headwinds. Notice the
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by lsy 4y ago
I don't understand the strategy behind creating an atmosphere where the threat of termination is so regularly deployed to drive action. When I think of the best engineers I have ever worked with, I suspect every one would be turned off
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by lsy 4y ago
This is what immunologists are saying pretty much everywhere you look. I thought "AFAICT" was clear enough that 1) I have tried to find this out and 2) from what I can tell the preponderance of opinion from people who seem qualifi
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by lsy 4y ago
People seem to think that there's an effect where the individual immune system gets weaker with disuse. AFAICT this isn't the case. The "debt" here is the same debt you incur if you have a Windows PC you only boot up eve
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by lsy 4y ago
The article attributes the productivity loss to employee dissatisfaction, but I suspect working from an office is for many people just less productive overall. - Written communication and documentation falls off as people rely on (and forge
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by lsy 4y ago
It's important to remember that this is a statement made by one party to a dispute, not a neutral statement of facts. It's unclear whether any of the claims made in the statement are true, or whether this is an intentionally destr
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by lsy 4y ago
> The company says it's a myth that the app frequently malfunctions and causes immigrants to miss check-ins. "An average of 88.4% of SmartLINK check-ins were completed successfully over the last five years," GEO says. That
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by lsy 4y ago
This logic seems a little flimsy. A ship-killer doesn't obsolete ships any more than nuclear weapons have obsoleted armies. In practice these weapons are available but not deployed, or the enemy being fought doesn't have them. The
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by lsy 5y ago
Not the author, but in response to the many variations of "why would you do this?", the answer seems simple: If you do most of your computing on a Mac, this is one of the few available monitors that has highly compatible resolutio
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by lsy 5y ago
What this is saying is that workplaces where the employees have more power are more likely to be cautious about returning to work during a pandemic. That makes a lot of sense, as employees are going to be more careful with their own health
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by lsy 5y ago
Good reporting involves investigation, not assuming that the first time you’re seeing something is the first time anyone is seeing it. If you’ve gone anywhere near railroad tracks in industrial parts of Los Angeles in the past decade, you’v
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by lsy 5y ago
This is a great case study in how news media manufactures hysteria over commonplace occurrences. A reporter "keeps hearing of train burglaries on the scanner" and goes to take pictures, then tweets them. What did the location look
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by lsy 5y ago
This isn't a helpful or honestly very nice comment, considering you don't know the commenter's situation or risk profile. The article you linked even makes the point that delaying onset of Covid until there are more vaccines
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by lsy 5y ago
Maybe we come back to this after the Omicron wave has subsided and see whether your fear has been realized or whether the schools have reopened? I'm not really sure what the cause for concern about indefinite restrictions is here. If a
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by lsy 5y ago
One of the unpleasant things about the recent pandemic surge has been the opportunistic article-writing to relitigate controversial issues like school closures, which had, with the previous numbers, become a thing of the past, with broad ag
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by lsy 5y ago
There are a lot of reasons HIV exposure laws don’t work well: they treat HIV differently than any other disease (because they were originally designed as anti-homosexual laws), and the “knowingly” part discouraged people from getting tested
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by lsy 5y ago
This is the second article I've seen lately that credulously quotes an observation Brad Smith made, on the grounds that he is Brad Smith, without telling us why we should take Brad Smith seriously on this or any other topic. The last a
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by lsy 5y ago
It seems that some tech executives, having more money than any person could spend, often seek what they see as the next level of accomplishment, which is proximity to power and decisions over life and death. That shows up as this sort of mi
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by lsy 5y ago
This is an extremely strange criticism. Unless you have some kind of strong union or co-op situation, as an employee you have almost zero control over the contract and payment structure at your company, and management’s decisions around it
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by lsy 5y ago
From the North Carolina Dept of Commerce: “JDIG grant payments are determined using a formula that takes into consideration the new taxes generated by the new jobs that are created. A percentage of those newly generated funds are reimburse
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by lsy 5y ago
This would make me extremely uncomfortable as an employee. I expect my state taxes to go to help cover expenses across the state, pay for social programs, emergency expenditures, etc. Knowing that my tax dollars were being kicked back to my
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by lsy 6y ago
Leaving aside the politics of whether we should care for the less-fortunate, I think this is only a problem of perspective and not of reality. In practice, there is safety in numbers, so cities with more people walking, out and about, tend
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by lsy 6y ago
Declining to sell a book in a store isn’t “censorship”. The author could easily host the book on their own website. If the government forces them to take it down, then it’s censorship.
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by lsy 8y ago
This article needs a lot more detail before it can even begin to be used as an indicator of impending rapid mass technological unemployment. The huge, mostly mechanical system pictured in the Japan News article doesn't visually diffe
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by lsy 9y ago
Fuel efficiency decreases generally relative to the surface area of the front of the vehicle, where road damage increases with the mass of the vehicle. So a long, heavy vehicle like a truck is indeed harder on the road relative to their fue
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by lsy 9y ago
Drawing conclusions about "innate" differences between men and women from this data doesn't seem valid. There's a lot of research left to eliminate confounding effects on participation that aren't covered or investi
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by lsy 9y ago
The term "third rail" comes from underground subway systems where there is a third, electrified rail to provide power to trains. There are usually warnings in the subway not to touch the rail due to the risk of electrocution. &quo
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by lsy 10y ago
The question is posed as though this is settled science, when it isn't. Leaving aside causes of difference, the concept of "cognitive ability" is, at the very least, fiercely debated as being variously: culturally biased, ove

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